by Dean | Jan 11, 2015 | Backup, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Restore
I figured that if I keep talking about backups on this website I had better have a pretty good setup in place at home. This isn’t something that I took lightly either, it needed to be flawless, automatic, easy and reliable. So I considered all of my options from...
by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Aug 2, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, Programming
So now that I have all of the systems setup and running for my websites, I needed a way to back up the data on a regular basis. There are of course many backup applications that you could use but I wanted something easy and cheap. I hunted around the internet for a...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I think it is safe to say that server outages are the most common real world disaster. Just thinking about these issues I can think of a number of server issues recently that would fall into this category for example. Server with single power supply had a failed power...
